The Storm Plan

The Wind, the Rain, the Earth, and the largest and oldest Tree in the neighbor’s back yard had been planning a storm for the northern part of New York for longer than either of them could recall. They’d been busy making new plans for the Rainbows and Summer Rains that were to follow, so they’d forgotten about it once time came for it to all go down. When it came time for the storm to happen it was sloppily slapped together, because the Rain got there late, and the Wind brought more of a gust than the largest and oldest Tree in the neighbors back yard had called for. The Tree held firm to it’s roots, put up a damn good fight, but became irritated as it was tipped over when the Wind blew too hard. Tree uprooted and tipped over before the Rain ever got there! The Tree having promised the Rain that it would shake its branches for it once more before the time came to lay it’s cosmic and naked body of firm, wrinkled, and grey, bark down, naturally it was sad.

What they hadn’t planned were the couple of cousins that were hanging out on the porch talking politics and drinking fine wine throughout the night and on to the morning. The Wind and the Earth got caught up in the energetic association between the two. So much that they paid more attention to the climax of those kids conversation, and simply lost track of the plan they had made with the Tree so long ago.

There lay the Tree shaking with the Wind and dancing on its side for the Rain. In the end, no one’s feelings were hurt, and they all agreed that the storm went on even better than had been planned. The Tree was happy to have added to the climax in the conversation between the two cousins. The Rain was laughing teardrops when it saw the Tree dancing on it’s side like it had never done before. The Earth was happy they were all still alive and no one got hurt. The kids, they still tell the story from their point of view even to this day.